Welcome to the DC Today, your daily market synopsis of the Dividing Cafe, brought to you every Monday through Thursday to bring you up-to-date information and perspective on financial markets.

Well, hello, welcome to the Monday edition of DC Today, my favorite day for DC Today. We're actually, I'm just going to

record here from my desk at my New York office rather than walk into the studio because we're already

running late. So we're going to do this down and dirty. But there's a lot of information there

today. And the written version at the DC Today.com will give you all the goodies.

In terms of the markets, we'll get that out of the way first.

The Dow was up over 400 points, about 1.1%.

The futures were up last night, about 50 points when I was on the plane coming into New York

and had gotten up as much as about 75.

Early, early this morning, they kind of were in that range, something between 50

and 100 points pre-market.

Then we opened up 200 and then it just sort of steadily went up throughout the day.

So you just, you know, I think have positive earnings environment, a lot of Goldilocks type data that is in that sort of not too hot, not too cold camp.

And market participants seem to be liking it.

Although today was, even though communication services

was the higher performing sector, the Dow substantially about doubled what the NASDAQ had done.

So it wasn't just on the junkier side of markets and financials did quite well today as well.

Only sector was down as utilities and they were flat on the day.

They were down two basis points.

So big risk on.

I want to give you, let's see, the 10-year bond was up three basis points today.

I think we're about 4.09%.

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